It’s school time again! The running, yelling and pushing abounds on the playgrounds and the classrooms. I was a quiet kid, so I can imagine wanting a little bit of that quiet reflection. Heaven knows I certainly did a lot of praying in school.
“Dear God, please let their be something new for lunch. Please let their be a place for me at kickball. And Please help that one girl not to have cooties!”
I love working with kids at my church. I pray I won’t get too old to act silly in Sunday school, play a little Twister and drink red punch.
I’ve seen older people that just love kids and a few who… well, let’s just say life has been tough on them and they are no longer user friendly to babies.
Let’s keep the faith and stay young, if only young at heart.
“The company wanted to save money so they hired a new I.T. consulting firm.”
I heard the other day of a consultant who’s primary task was to keep himself working with a client. He didn’t want to do anything that would put him out of work so he kept doing scrappy little pieces of work to look like he was bein successful, yet he was ensuring he wasn’t reaching the ultimate goal.
I have also seen a few luddite I.T. guys before. Can’t say I blame them. A new technology comes along and it’s just new enough to mess up the whole system when implemented. There is nothing like starting from scratch just when you have all the computers talking nice to each other!
“The hospital called. Your prayer life has been rushed into intensive care!”
Yes, there have been those times where my face gets flushed because I realize I haven’t prayed most of the day. Come on, Kevin! You can’t run on batteries all day!
What is a good prayer life anyway? This post by the Desiring God site offers some tips. The bottom line is it is a personal choice that centers around just taking time to do it. I like to get up early in the morning and journal my prayers. I either write by hand or type them in my electronic journal. No matter how you do it, I encourage you to find some time and take your prayer life off of life support.
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They say good work is its own reward, eh?
I create a monthly comic strip for NAEN Ministries. Once in a while, I like to take a cliché and see what happends when I twist it around. Good work is its own reward, but it’s still good to receive a paycheck from it.